Before February. By Todd Chretien (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 8 March 2017). “The February Revolution erupted 100 years ago today and swept away a blood-soaked monarchy.”

Fidelity to February: The People’s revolution (RS21: Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century, March 7, 2017). “In days where revolution can seem more remote than ever, Dan Swain explores the height of the February revolution and reflects on its relevance to revolutionary politics today.”

Caught in the Revolution. By Alan Gibson (Socialist Review, Issue 422, March 2017). Review of Helen Rappaport’s book (Windmill Books, 2017, 464 p.). “Helen Rappaport has skilfully woven together the accounts and reports made by more than 80 foreigners who were either visiting or working in Petrograd on International Women’s Day 1917 …”

February 1917 – when workers remade history (Socialist Worker, Issue 2544, 7 March 2017). “A century ago this week in Russia, the February Revolution ended an ancient dictatorship and began the quest for a new society.”

1917: The view from the streets: Leaflets of the Russian revolution (John Riddell: Marxist Essays and Commentary, December 2016 – ). “A series of new translations of revolutionary leaflets and statements being published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution …”:
Leaflet 5: Women’s Day in Russia 1917: A day to prepare for victory (March 6/February 21, 1917). “A leaflet issued by Russian socialists 100 years ago to honor Working Women’s Day anticipated the revolution that began that day.” With links to Leaflet 1-4.

The opening days of the Russian Revolution (Workers’ Liberty, 15 February 2017). “This extract from Paul Vernadsky’s forthcoming book on the revolution describes the background and opening events – the democratic revolution, ousting the Tsar, which would eventual lead to a workers’ revolution.”

February’s forgotten vanguard. By Jason Yanowitz (International Socialist Review, Issue 75, January–February 2011). “After discussing the political and economic situation the left faced leading up to February, I will go through the major flaws of the spontaneity argument. In reality, socialists were involved at every stage of the revolutionary process in Russia.” + Debate between Paul D’Amato and Jason Yanowitz: Spontaneity and Revolution (Issue 78, July-August 2011)

The February Revolution (SocialistWorker.org, May 17, 2013/March 2, 2007). “Kirstin Roberts tells the story of an uprising that toppled three centuries of Tsarist rule.”

February 1917: the fall of the tsar. By Kevin Ramage (Socialist Alternative, October 1987). “The February revolution in Russia opened nine months of titanic class struggle which culminated in the coming to power of the working class …”

The Petrograd workers and the Fall of the Old Régime: From the February Revolution to the July Days, 1917 (pdf). By David Mandel (MacMillan, 1983, 213 p.). “This is a study of the first months of the Russian Revolution as seen from the factory districts of Petrograd, the ‘red capital’.”

The debate at Halle. By E. Haberkern (Against the Current, Issue 156, January-February 2012). Review of Ben Lewis and Lars T. Lih (eds.), Martov and Zinoviev: Head to Head in Halle (November Publications, 2011)

Lenin’s April Theses and the Russian Revolution. By Kevin Corr (International Socialism, Issue 154, Spring 2017, p.67-94). “The role of the soviets and the matter of the provisional government were to be the two key features of the April Theses.”

From the Finland Station. By Yurii Colombo (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 16 April 2017). “Lenin arrived at Finland Station 100 years ago today, reshaping Bolshevik strategy and the course of the Russian Revolution.”

Lenin rearms the party. Chapter in Tony Cliff: Lenin. Vol. 2: All Power to the Soviet (Pluto Press, 1976, p.119-139)

Se også:

The Bolsheviks in 1917: Index to a Debate (John Riddell: Marxist Essays and Commentary, October 12, 2017). “The following are the contributions published so far in an ongoing discussion initiated by Lars Lih and Eric Blanc.”

‘All Power to the Soviets! A seven-part series by Lars T. Lih (John Riddell: Marxist Essays and Commentary): Part 1: Biography of a slogan (March 23, 2017) + Part 2: The proletariat and its ally: The logic of Bolshevik ‘hegemony’ (April 26, 2017) + Part 3: Letter from Afar, corrections from up close: Censorship or retrofit? (June 24, 2017) + Part 4: Thirteen to two: Petrograd Bolsheviks debate the April Theses (July 20, 2017) + Part 5: Lenin refutes a misreading of the April Theses (August 15, 2017) + Part 6: The character of the Russian Revolution: Trotsky 1917 vs Trotsky 1924 (October 25, 2017).

Putting the record straight (Weekly Worker, Issue 1178, November 9, 2017). “Jack Conrad argues that those who still insist on claiming that there was some kind of programmatic break in April 1917 are, for their own particular reasons, desperate to defend a radically false version of history.”

Re-Arming the party: Bolsheviks and socialist revolution in 1917. By Paul Le Blanc (October 21, 2017). “A valuable contribution to scholarship on Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and the Russian Revolution of 1917 has – through iconoclastic overstatement – been transformed into an odd and misleading conceptualization by two scholars …”

Rearming the April theses (Weekly Worker, Issue 1170, 14 September 2017). “With the help of some new insights, Rex Dunn argues that Lars T Lih’s continuity theory does not stand up, despite the new evidence he has uncovered.

False memory syndrome. By Jack Conrad (Weekly Worker, Issue 1150, 13 April 2017). “Far from being disproved by 1917, the standing programme of Bolshevism found vindication.”

A revolutionary line of march: ‘Old Bolshevism’ in early 1917 re-examined. By Eric Blanc (Historical Materialism, Blog, 31 March 2017). “Through a re-examination of Bolshevik politics in March 1917, the following article demonstrates that the prevailing story is historically inaccurate …”

Lenin’s arrival in Russia (Weekly Worker, Issue 1149, 6 April 2017). “One hundred years ago a small group of revolutionaries returned to Russia in the famous ”˜sealed train’. Ben Lewis introduces Grigory Zinoviev’s account of this truly historic event.”

Is the class contracting? By Duncan Hallas (Socialist Review, No.48, November 1982, p.25-27). “Both The Guardian and Marxism Today have recently carried an article by the well-known CP historian Eric Hobsbawm, arguing that to see the working class as the agency of socialism is no longer ‘plausible’.”

Marxism today – Eric Hobsbawm (Bepe Grillo’s Blog, 1 October 2011). … The interview took place on his 94th birthday for the launch of his latest book …How to Change the World – Why rediscover the inheritance of Marxism. Hobsbawm looks at the possibility of a shift towards the Right in the next few years in Europe for reasons that are connected to the economic depression and the search for safety and a stagnation of the EU, appesantita by getting continuously bigger and bigger and by the lack of a common political vision. Furthermore, the campaign groups are developing more in the areas where there is a higher percentage of young people, thus is North Africa and in the developing countries. But, above all, Hobsbawm who is keen to point out that he is a historian and not a futurologist, tells us what Marxism has become today and what its effects are.

Se også:

Stuck on the flypaper (London Review of Books, Vol.37, No.7, 9 April 2015). Frances Stonor Saunders on MI5 and the Hobsbawm File.

Classic texts: a summary of Lenin’s State and Revolution (Counterfire, August 17, 2015). “Can the state be taken over because it is a neutral space or does it have to be overthrown? Paul Vernell looks at Lenin’s answer.”

How to learn from Lenin (RS21: Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century, October 23, 2014). “Barnaby Raine examines the relevance of one of Lenin’s key works The State and Revolution.”

Introduction to Lenin’s State and Revolution (Counterfire, 30 December 2012). “Neil Faulkner begins the series with a look at the Marxist theory of the state.”

State and Revolution: Why we need to smash the state (Socialist Worker, Issue 2227, 13 November 2010). “The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin wrote this book in the midst of the extreme violence of the First World War, and the revolutionary upheaval taking place in Russia in 1917.”

State and revolution. Chapter 17, – i: Tony Cliff: Lenin, Vol. 2 (Pluto Press, 1976, p.315-327). “It is clear from this, firstly, that the work was practically ready even before the February Revolution, and secondly that Lenin thought it to be of paramount importance.”

The genesis of State and Revolution. By Marian Sawer (Socialist Register, 1977, p.209-227). “It represents the meeting of the aspirations of a Western socialist tradition with the halfsubmerged aspirations of a people in motion.”

Lenin’s The State and Revolution. By Ralph Miliband (Socialist Register, 1970, p.309-319). “The State and Revolution is rightly regarded as one of Lenin’s most important works. It addresses itself to questions of the utmost importance for socialist theory and practice …” Also online at Jacobin (14 August 2018).

The Balfour Declaration. By Shaun Doherty (Socialist Review, Issue 434, April 2018). Review of Bernard Regan, The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine (Verso, 2017, 288 p.). “Bernard Regan has produced a timely and well researched analysis of the Balfour Declaration of November 1917.”

No straight line from Balfour to today (Solidarity & Workers’ Liberty, Issue 453, 8 November 2017). “Paul Hampton argues there was never an inexorable, linear development from the Balfour declaration to the creation of Israel, or indeed, to the current injustice towards the Palestinians.”

100 years since the Balfour Declaration. Part one + Part two. By Jean Shaoul (World Socialist Web Site, 7-8 November 2017). “The Declaration was a sordid deal made over the heads of the inhabitants of Palestine, launching a nakedly colonial project that was to have a profound impact on the development of conflicts and divisions within the region.”

One hundred years of the Balfour Declaration. By Rabab Abdulhadi (Against the Current, Issue 191, November-December 2017). “The Balfour Declaration not only legitimized the Zionist project in Palestine and transformed it into a contender in international relations. It in effect precipitated the spread of Zionism among British Jews.”

Centrepiece of imperial strategy (Weekly Worker, Issue 1177, 2 November 2017). “On the centenary of the Balfour declaration, Tony Greenstein looks at the reasons underlying British support for Zionism.”

After Balfour. By Rashid Khalidi (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 2 November 2017). “100 years ago today, a 67-word statement from the British cabinet shaped the future of Palestine.”

Palestine, the Great War and British Imperialism (RS21: Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century, November 2, 2017). “Neil Rogall look at how Britain’s strong relationship with Israel goes back to the Balfour Declaration which paved the way for the Zionist state.”

The Balfour Declaration and its consequences (Verso, Blog, 1 November 2017). “Here we present an essay by Avi Shlaim that examines the declaration and its historiography; extract from his book, Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (Verso, 2010, 416 p.)

Balfour 100 years on – nothing to celebrate (Counterfire, October 25, 2017). “The Balfour Declaration was the prelude to violent settler colonialism in Palestine argues Alex Snowdon and explains why thousands will be protesting not celebrating.”

What we owe to Balfour (Jewish Socialists’ Group, Winter 2007). “How much does Israel owe to ‘the Lord’, and how much to Lord Balfour? On the 90th anniversary of the famous Declaration, Charlie Pottins looked at .some of the history of interests and motivations behind it.”

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